When Time announced the Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year 2010” it drew a lot of flak from every direction. (A tweet went out immediately, declaring “Time just announced person of the year 2007”). In its liberal tradition Time had asked us all to vote for choosing person of the year. Then in its elitist tradition, it ignored the votes and chose the guy they were going with anyways, despite the fact that the Wikileaks, founder Julian Assange had received 20 times more votes than Zuckerberg .
In their defense, Assagne was only responsible for the largest revelation of confidential documents in the history that shook governments and dominated front page of newspapers for months. Zuckerberg, on the other hand, got his own movie, one that makes every software engineer on the planet salivate. Anyone can see that giving teenagers the ability to poke each other without the danger of pregnancy is far more significant than to leak so many secrets that at the current rate it would take more than seven years to publish them in their entirety.
But this attempt at reinterpreting global events of the year was nothing compared to what China tried…
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